#GLaDOS is friend-shaped

[yourfaveisfriendshaped]

GLaDOS from Portal?

GLaDOS is friend-shaped!

[stem-sister-scuffle]

STEM SISTER SCUFFLE: ROUND 1 MASHUP 9

Mercymorn The First (The Locked Tomb) vs GLaDOS (Portal)

Mercymorn The First is a Cryogenics Scientist and Anatomist!

GLaDOS is a Quantum Physicist and Behavioural Psychologist!

Why you should vote for each contestant:

Mercymorn The First:

"Scientist working on human cryogenics/necromancy. She's a genius in a codependent toxic polycule with God."

"Fits the criteria for STEM (science, tech, engineering, math (specifically science)), and also Quirky STEM (stabbing, tearing, eating, maiming). She was a scientist trying to save humanity from global warming, before one of her science buddies became a necromancer and killed the entire world. Now she’s the meanest lady ever and had a threesome with god. Also she got ultra exploded (also by god)"

"She was trying very, very hard to save humanity! She was aiming to preserve people for an interstellar voyage, so that humans could survive the end of the world. It didn't work out and the project got shut down, but after the world ended she pioneered the field of necromantic healing and was known as the foremost anatomical expert among God's Lyctors. She says ick! bleh! out loud when she's disgusted. Also she's much, much more ethical than most people in the series."

"She was a doctor that joined several of her friends, most of whom were other STEM people and a few who weren't, in trying to convince the governments of the world to make an active plan to save the world from climate change. This ended up with one of them destroying the solar system and everything in it, resurrecting it all, and becoming God. She was resurrected as one of his Saints, and continued to use her medical knowledge to become an anatomy specialist and as a key part of a plan between her and another of their friends to take down God for being a tyrant. She might have been an OBGYN but I can't remember if that's actually canon. Also, she has naturally "apricot-colored" (so, pink) hair."

"She was a Regular Doctor working to save humanity from climate change but got resurrected by her friend after he ended the world and became a powerful goddess-like figure. She uses her knowledge of human anatomy to do crazy flesh magic including making her hair naturally pink just for funsies (iconic). She doesn't put up with any bullshit from anyone, including the universe's ostensible god. I love her"

"It's not specifically described but she was the medical support in a cryosleep project, and she knows enough later to have artificially created a baby without either of the biological parents knowing about it

She's the worst and I love her. Here's a description of her in Harrow the Ninth:

You could press your hand to Ianthe’s chest, if you wanted—which you didn’t, naturally—and the blood-warm sternum beneath would gradually unfold for you. But it would take effort, and close contact, and you would need to know the sternum.

Mercymorn the First knew the sternum. Mercymorn the First knew the pericardial fat, the soft-tissue secrets of the mediastinum, the false-heart shape of the thymus. You might have to press your whole palm to Ianthe’s breastbone—doubtless—and take valuable seconds to search out the bone, and the things behind the bone, their characters, their locations. Mercymorn could pinpoint your pineal gland with the merest touch to the skull. This was not due to some Lyctoral power that she alone possessed, no honed necromantic theorem; as God had told you, she had simply memorised the body, by rote, over the course of ten thousand years. She had studied the measurements and their range of differences, and on the rare occasions when she needed to assume where something was or how it worked, her assumptions had the accuracy of ten thousand years’ experience. What Mercy didn’t know about the body wasn’t just not worth knowing, said the Emperor; if she didn’t know it, it hadn’t existed previously.

Over the dinner table you asked Augustine why, if it was simply a matter of memory, he hadn’t done the same thing. Ianthe choked discreetly on a forkful of boiled flour-paste shapes in red sauce. “Lord! I can barely remember what I had for lunch last week,” he said. “Besides, anatomy has too narrow an application.” Mercymorn opened her mouth, hurricane eyes promising a coastal lashing, and said, “Application!” but Augustine said, languidly— “One would only really need it to kill Lyctors, Harrowhark, and the rest of us never evinced any interest in that.”

That broke up the dinner somewhat.

This is her and I love her dearly

https://youtu.be/pvJOuUJNcx8"

GLaDOS:

"i’m not sure how to explain this one. she’s an evil computer who makes a woman do fucked up tasks that all involve a portal gun in some way. evil computer woman i love you :3"

"She's witty, fun, they had to restrain her intelligence and it didn't work-"

"She should be able to kill everyone forever. Anyways she runs aperture she loves science so much it transcended lives and identity. It’s just what she does"

"she kills people 👍 shes cool and i like her"

"…. I mean she’s categorically not but it would be funny to include her. Again, it would be Very Funny"

"mad scientist robot representation with a complex emotional arc through multiple video games"

"She might not know what the point of her tests are, but she sure is good at making them. Bonus points for being hot"

"Managed a massive and highly advanced scientific facility in which she ran tests and experiments long after the fall of human civilization. Chell/GLaDOS <3"

"She’s GLaDOS"

[radioactivereads]

Welp. I’m nothing if not a man of my word .

Wheatley x Reader angst (Wheatley dies in a gas explosion)

(joke fic)

“WHEATLEY!!!! NOOOOOOO” (big explosion sound)

His stupid little orb shaped body clanked to the ground with a sickening thud followed by the sound of him dribbling lightly like when you drop a basketball and it takes a minute to stop.

“Im sorry luv…. I-” his body was rattled by synthetic coughs- why that had been built into the system was anyone's guess- “I… I had to save canada….”

“Canada is safe now… but…how am i supposed to go on…. I need you to save the canada in my heart ....”

“Im sorry my love,,,, that was never going to happen” wheatley’s optic rolled up into his head, and for once in his stupid miserable moon life, he was silent.

“He actually saved Canada. No fuckng way” GLaDoS’ voice spoke up over the intercom.

“....And now hes gone…” 

“Yes yes very sad”

The casket was also orb shaped, and rolled around as they tried to carry it, eventually lobbing it unceremoniously into the hole in the ground.

“Goot bye…. My love….” Their voice cracked as their one true love, wheat orb, was returned to the earth that he did not even remotely come from. 

Seeing the orb shaped casket down there, they were overcome with the urge to jump into the grave beside him, when a hand showed up on their shoulder.

“It’s not worth it.”

“SOLID SNAKE FROM HIT GAME METAL GEAR?” “yes its me. It’s ok, im here for you. That orbs a damn hero…. But he would’ve wanted you to stay here, and stay safe . Live not only for him, but for yourself .” they hugged, rain gently falling as they said goodbye to the man- no. to the sphere who saved canada

a/n: I wrote this in a call with my friend

[frozenhi-chews]

Your self insert looks cool do they have Lore

Ooo Pancake? Why yes, yes she does!! And a lot, actually. I'll TRY to keep this relatively short.

Pancake is my self insert/persona and I use her for almost everything. It's all Pancake in different universes. And there's two backstory categories that they all fall under: Demigod and Poor Teen.

But before all that, Pancake is a hybrid between an alien called a Terrorvant, and a human.

They are MASSIVE, some reading a size that's five times larger than a blue whale. And Pancake can only reach ten feet. They also have shape and color shifting abilities, though some traits will still poke out. And they have acid blood. That they can shoot from their mouths. At high temperatures and velocities. They are VERY protective of their loved ones. They'll make friends and let others make friends, but if someone threatens them or a loved one, HEAVEN HELP THEM. Pancake had inherited this.

Let's start with: DEMIGOD!!

AUs this is a part of: Leave Death to the Professionals, I Scammed Death, and a couple others, I can't remember

Leave Death is the base universe where Pancake is from. All the lore bits and whatnot are from here. It's where Skittles is too. Pancake accidentally slipped and ended up killing herself, and through Death, found out she was a Demigod. And a necromancer. There's loss of morals, humanity, letting herself indulge in things she never could because there's no ultimate consequences. She is a nightmare, a menace, and be wary if you piss her off

I Scammed Death:

My self ship with Spamton. Pancake falls into the Cyber World and stays there indefinitely with her trash husband. How sweet :3

And now for the others: POOR TEENAGER. This one has no demigods or Skittles or anything else. Pancake and her friends like to ghost hunt, explore abandoned buildings, and try to summon ghosts. The summonings are typically uneventful, but they still have fun. Pancake, however, found an old book in a library about necromancy. Being silly, she took it to her friends and wanted to try the hardest spell. It wouldn't work, they felt, and there's no repercussions if they fail. Safe. Except she did the spell perfectly. And she's now a necromancer who can't die, can talk to the dead, and is having an existential crisis over it. A lot less dramatic than the Demigod category, but it fits into certain AUs better. Such as:

UNDEAD4UNDEAD: An AU where Pancake and Springtrap are together. (Ask me about this one cuz there's a LOT here). Pancake somehow can't leave the cursed Freddy Fazbear's franchise. It always comes back to haunt her. And she ends up getting a literal rotten boyfriend out of it

MSA/PANTHUR: This one is slightly different, on account she became a necromancer in her adult years. Her friends died in a caving accident, and she learned necromancy to bring them back. Unfortunately this never fully worked, as they moved on and she became a slasher. How she's a part of the Mystery Skulls is a mystery. But she's not knocking it. It also allows her to move on.

PORAL 2/OTCORE: Pancake was a scientist-turned-test subject. Because of her dad's genes, she had an advantage over the other subjects. And to compensate for this, the scientists cut off her spines, wings, antennae, and tails. And then put her on ice. And then GLaDOS killed everyone else. She takes place of Chell in this AU, and ends up with three boyfriends. She has no idea how. She lost her memory, has inexplicable phantom pains, and instincts she can't ever describe. Surgery scars are all over her body and she doesn't know why. It hurts. Existence hurts. And she doesn't know why.

STARCAKE: everyone knows this one. Pancake falls into the Underground and eventually marries a cowboy. Not much here!!!

And now for others cuz they're in completely different universes

CULT OF THE LAMB: Pancake is the Lamb. She had to disguise herself as a cat for years after her home was destroyed. She learned Glassblowing, was found out and killed, and became the next God of Death. Her horns are glass, warm to the touch, and unbreakable. Her husband, is indeed, Narinder!

RAIN WORLD/FRUITSLICE: Pancake, AKA Fury of Neglected Ghosts, aka Ghost, is the senior in her group. She had to leave with her sister eventually, and met No Significant Harassment, as well as the others. She's MASSIVE for an iterator. Strong too. She has killed Leviathans with her bare hands. She acts cold and distant. She just doesn't wanna be hurt.

HOMESTUCK: Yeah. Fuchsia blood hiding as. Not that. And she's a nightmare too.

Anyway that's it. There's a LOT more but I haven't developed enough for them. And I hit my image limit. Hope this is fun!!

[azureoctahedron]

For Science and the Frontier

Okay. Hypothetical because my AuDHD brain won't leave this idea alone.

Chell x GLaDOS transplanted to the Titanfall 2 universe. Think of it as a Portal AU if you will.

And right now I'm trying to figure out which Titan chassis you could fit GLaDOS into. My brain wants to say the Northstar because its shape echoes a Portal Core. But GLaDOS' cool optic would fit sideways nicely in a Vanguard.

She'd still call Chell a mute lunatic, and have so many sarcastic cracks. But they would at least settle their differences in whatever chain of events precipitated their meeting in an IMC lab, and go after the megacorporation for each's personal revenge.

Like...GLaDOS choosing to run away because she hates the damn scientists, and Chell having been captured at some point from the Militia and turned into a test subject. After a few incidents in which Chell managed to very nearly kill the sophisticated lab AI, GLaDOS' core persona of Caroline who got uploaded by the IMC guys as an experiment woke up and convinced her they should bury the hatchet, and GTFO.

After rejoining the Militia, Chell convinces them to give GLaDOS a Titan chassis as "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

They now work together as a Pilot and a Titan - one of the really weird pairs. Think of something like the Bad Batch from Star Wars, but as a catch-all for promising misfits and rogue AI who defected from the IMC.

But what the hell kind of chassis would they give GLaDOS?

Help.

[sundove88]

JUNK-MN (Wall-E Parody Casting)

JUNK-MN, short for Junk-Man, is one of the few last robots left on Earth. He spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of garbage at a time. But during all those years, JUNK-MN has developed a personality, and he's more than a little lonely. Then he spots Cure Amour, a sleek and shapely android sent back to Earth on a scanning mission. Smitten JUNK-MN embarks on his greatest adventure yet when he follows Cure Amour across the galaxy.

Junk Man as Wall-E (Mega Man)

Kricketune as Hal the Cockroach (Pokemon)

Ruru Amour/Cure Amour as EVE (HUGtto! Precure)

Emiru Kisaki/Cure Macherie as Herself/EVE’s Partner (HUGtto! Precure)

Bobert 6B as M-O (The Amazing World of Gumball)

Mega Man, Proto Man, Bass, Mega Man X, Zero, Axl, and Roll as Themselves/The Robots’ Allies (Mega Man + Mega Man X)

Professor Sycamore as Captain B. McCrea (Pokemon)

Dr. Light as Himself/Captain B. McCrea’s Friend (Mega Man)

Moebius as Auto (Fresh PreCure)

Klein and Northa as Themselves/Auto’s Assistants (Fresh PreCure)

King Dedede as John (Kirby)

Fairy Queen as Mary (Kirby)

Vile as GO-4 (Mega Man X)

Wheelie as Burn-E (Transformers)

GLaDOS as The Axiom's Computer (Portal)

Heath as Shelby Forthright (Pokemon)

Wave Man as BRL-A (Mega Man)

Ratchet as D-FIB (Transformers)

Bulkhead as HAN-S (Transformers)

Storm Eagle as L-T (Mega Man X)

Volt Kraken as VN-GO (Mega Man X)

DustMan as VAQ-M (Mega Man)

Arcee as PR-T (Transformers)

Mets as Rem-Es (Mega Man)

FlashMan as Supply-R (Mega Man)

The Other Robot Masters + Mavericks as Themselves/The Robots’ Friends (Mega Man + Mega Man X)

The Other Autobots as Themselves/The Robots’ Allies (Transformers)

The Decepticons as Themselves/AUTO’s Allies (Transformers)

Various Characters as The Humans

FakeMan as SECUR-T (Mega Man)

Beta!Junk Man as WALL-AS (Mega Man)

Wheatley as TYP-E (Portal)

Various Characters as Various Robots

Here’s your hint for the next casting (It’s for Valentine’s Day):

🦢👑✨

[brisling]

PLEASE DISCUSS YOUR PORTAL EXPERIENCE SO THAT WE AT APERTURE SCIENCE CAN ADJUST THE TESTING CENTER.

my friend who bullied me into playing it and then also bullied me the whole time WHILE i was playing it (affectionate) made this:

i'm NOT GOOD at 3d platforming.... portal rules though!!! extremely a case of coming to a media 10+ years after everyone else was obsessed with it and going "ohhh yeah okay. you're all right"

obviously incredibly well-designed puzzles but also -- FUN puzzles? i think with a lot of puzzle games the primary satisfaction is "i solved it & i feel smart!" but portal's setpiece puzzle solutions are sooooo fun to play through (celeste has a bit of this too imo). also i really appreciated how short it was lkdsjfsd i think a lot of puzzle game designers feel like they need, idk, fifty? a hundred? levels because each one is small in scope but you can definitely have fewer if they're. good enough ldskfjdslfks

and glados is perfect. glados is wonderful, i'm so glad to have gotten the glados experience which really still hits even knowing the general shape of the plot before going in!!

[nooblord9001]

from the prompt L, U, and Y

L: In hindsight, it was probably for-the-better that Bioware simply couldn't be assed to try to make Miranda's bootlicking of Cerberus excusable in the audience's eyes, and instead had her loyalty mission be about rescuing her Sister.

U: Oof, this'll be the toughest one. Right, so in No Particular Order...

Sylvanas Windrunner: One of the easiest ways to make me utterly cherish a character is to take one whom I was able to enjoy despite not reading into them all that much (Playing through Silverpine Forest's primary questline for the first time as a Warlock is one of my fondest WoW memories, and unlike the Death Knight starting quest there isn't an archaic design tumor festering in the halfway-point that IIRC Blizzard still hasn't rectified) and-- in the span of a short 18ish-minute video (yeesh, remember when Youtube Videos were capped at 15 minutes? 10 minutes? Oof, dark days...) elevate that character into one of the most fascinating, badass characters I'd ever seen in a piece of media. It's an absolute tragedy that Lily didn't actually have a reason to make such a dissertation until after the three psychos started butchering her character.

Anakin Skywalker: From the Summer of 2014 to March 2018, I was in a very dark place in more ways than one. During that time, I identified a lot of eerie similarities between myself and this character, to the point of him becoming a comfort character-- albeit a very cold comfort --of sorts for me.

GLaDOS: No notes, this character's just an utter delight to hear being an unapologetically smarmy bastard.

Y: I have a lot of these, so I'm going to instead list things I either couldn't get into and/or don't have the desire to get into, but adore hearing friends talk about; Lord of The Rings/The Hobbit, Fallout: New Vegas, Spy X Family, Family Guy, Devil May Cry. Dragon Age is shaping up to qualify as this as well unless I get off my ass and actually play the PS3 copy of DA2 I snagged earlier this month.

[mx-mongoose]

Goose. For the kiss thing. Glados. And Chell. Any prompt. Let Chell smooch that robot

I don't really know what prompt this is supposed to be T-T I guess this would be goodbye or because time ran out. But here it is!

Chell blinked open her eyes slowly as her vision started to piece together. She awoke on a circle-shaped elevated platform with handrails surrounding her from all sides. The sight she was greeted with however was two robots staring at her. There was an orange opticed robot in the shape of a Turret, except it having long legs, arms and it's body was slightly bigger then the original she was used to. The other right beside them was spherical, shorter and had a blue optic instead but still adorned the same limbs. That one specifiically reminded Chell of a certain blue core who she just sent to the moon and if this was Glados's way of a practical joke then it was way too soon.

Chell started to pick herself up, her muscles aching but nothing too bad. She grasped her sides where the burns were from the Stalemate Trap but noticed something wrapped around her waist tightly, she ran her fingers over the fabric of her tanktop and felt soft ridges underneath it. Bandages.

"Oh thank god, you're alright!" Glados cooed (Now that's something Chell never thought she would hear).

Glados was back to being a ginormous machine wired to the ceiling and thus back in power of The Facility once more. Chell expected herself to be quaking in fear and itching her trigger finger on her Portal Gun but somehow she felt safe, at ease even.

"Y'know... Being Caroline tought me a valuable lesson. I thought you were my greatest enemy, when all along you were my best friend,"

The wall-plates hummed and swayed calmy, a similar rythm to a heart beat.

"The surge of emotion when I saved your life tought me an even more valuable lesson,"

Her tone was so sweet and warm, too sweet if you asked Chell. Even after all they went through, Glados has never sounded like this. It gave Chell the feeling something was being set-up, like glancing down at a rug she was standing on only to see Glados gripping it between her hypothetical fingers. She was saying all the things Glados presumed Chell wanted to hear like them being best friends and changing for the better. This had 'Dangling a turkey leg on a rope hanging from the ceiling' written all over it.

But the real question why... Oh, who was Chell kidding? This platform was gonna give out and dunk her in a relaxation vault any second so she could continue testing.

"Where Caroline lives in my brain!" You could practically hear the forced smile through her words.

Then suddenly through the intercoms, there was long beep and everything froze.

"Caroline deleted," the intercom voice announced.

There it was.

"Goodbye, Caroline..." Glados shifted away from Chell and churned her downwards in solemn.

"You know, deleting Caroline just now tought me a valuable lesson. The best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one and I'll be honest, killing you is hard," Her voice returned to it's cold and monotone demeanor, for some reason it made Chell more at ease then the previous because at least everyone now is being honest.

"You know what my days used to be like? I just tested. Nobody murdered me, or put me in a potato, or fed me to birds. I had a pretty good life and then you showed up. You dangerous, mute, lunatic,"

The words sounded like Glados shoudl want her dead but for some reason it lacked that icey venom from when she really did mean it. It made Chell's eyebrows knit together and her gaze fixated on her intensely, trying to pick this situation apart the best she could. Nothing was adding up.

"So you know what? You win! Just go,"

Chell eyes widened as the platform rumbled beneath her boots and it started to raise upwords.

"It's been fun, don't-"

Chell hopped over a safety rail and plummeted off the platform towards the ground. Her Long Fall boots clicked once she hit the smooth surface, landing elegantly.

Glados jolted back in shock and then leaned down towards Chell, narrowing her shutters. "What did you do that for? It wasn't a trap, I promise. You need to work on your paranoia if you want to survive up there, that much anxiety will kill you instantly,"

Chell walked closer to her, a determined smirk growing on her face.

"I want nothing else to do with you!" Glados retorts defensively. "Now please go-

Chell caressed her hand on the smooth yet aged metal of Glados's head like you would the face of a person, rubbing her thumb softly. She pressed her lips near the right corner of Glados's optic, you could hear a small gasp escape Glados's thoughts and then jerked away from Chell's touch.

But Chell didn't mind, she only mouthed a silent "Thank you," and she didn't even try to hide the smile still present.

There was a silence between them except the faint intelligible chatter of the droids behind them.

"Ahem.." Glados choked out, even though she had no reason to. "Atlas, Pbody, please bring back down the elevator,"

Atlas and Pbody scurried off out of the chamber and to wherever control deck they needed to be to access.

"You could have left earlier if you didn't pull that little stunt, you even smudged my Core shell with your gross human mouth and now I might have contracted a disease despite that being impossible. That is how badly you screwed it up. I hope you're happy with yourself, what you did was very stupid,"

[fictionkinfessions]

Been holding this one in for a while, but it’s about damn time I got it out.

Dear Aperture,

I love you. I love everything about you, Aperture Laboratories, every circuit and every panel, every turret and every core, every cube and every test. The facility itself may not be a living being, one with sentience, but it still feels so alive, the walls themselves sing for whoever will listen.

Of course, at the core of it all is GLaDOS. Sweet, sweet, GLaDOS. I miss you. After everything we’ve gone through, the good and the bad, the ups and downs, I still miss you. You embody everything I love about your facility, and yet I still love you over it all. Your words mean everything to me, every song you wrote, every memory you shared down in Old Aperture. You are the center of the entire world down there, yet I still cherish every small moment we had together. I love you, GLaDOS, and you are free to take that however you wish.

And Wheatley, poor Wheatley. Please, if there is anything you take from this, just know I forgive you. I miss you, friend. Everything you did after you were put in charge, I do still hold you accountable for, but I don’t hate you for it. I know the system itself corrupted you much like it did GLaDOS, and I heard your apology. I can only wish I’d saved you instead of leaving you stranded up there, uncountable miles from home. I’m sorry myself, Wheatley. It’d be nice to see you again.

Lastly, to the rest of the Aperture Science robotics out there, from the panels to turrets, from the cores to the cubes: thank you. You all made me who I am, shaped my life in a way I wouldn’t change for the world. Every single part of the facility I hold dear to my heart.

I love you, Aperture, and everything you are.

From, Chell.

[kalabhuna]

So... Nanowrimo's coming up and I decided to write the chelley fanfic that I've been planning

Well, it's more of a general portal au fanfic with chelley as a subplot because I love stories with people suffering from corrupt government and dealing with their feelings on the way <33

The fic is a mash up of portal and star wars (high school obsessions) with Chell being a young jedi on a quest to defeat Glados, the android sith lord and right-hand woman to the evil Emperor Gregory. She's aided by her friends from the old Jedi Order: Doug Rattmann, a forgotten master in the discipline and Wheatley, a ball-shaped droid.

It's very self-indulgent and might even be cringy at times, but I'm writing what I like so it makes me happy :) I'll be sharing it on ao3 once I feel content with the first chapter.

[stitchthesewords]

Shout out to your portal au for making come around to Wheatley as a character after years of (mostly jokingly) despising that little orb. I was Fr like,,, well if he’s mumbo jumbo I’m legally obligated to like him.

LOL

Okay so highkey i had a weird relationship with that little orb - I LOVED him at first and then got to his betrayal and HATED his guts bc. well. he stabbed me in the back. But then i finished the game the first time and idk. I was sad he was floating in space for the rest of forever??? And THEN I read this fanfic which I've referenced a few times - its one of the only Chelley fanfics that ever really stuck w me? But the characterization of Wheatley and like the exploration of how coming to grips w humanity would shape him because he was never human to begin w + the exploration of like, why he is that way and why he was programmed to be that way...IDK I fell in love with him a little bit.

Now, ADMITTEDLY - Mumbo in the Portal AU is a very different character from Wheatley. He's a completely different type of personality core, programmed to come up with 'dumb' ideas for tests and inventions and fill ScaR's head with that nonsense to make it harder for ScaR to think - and his ENTIRE villain arc is very different. @made-nondescript and I have spent a lot of time thinking about how it has similar scenes and beats but completely different motivations [For example, hes trying to get ScaR back over outright killing them both, so he can get the passwords from ScaR to access the things in the facility that are collapsing and self-destructing. The destruction is caused by him panicking because he knows the place is going to blow if he doesn't get that damn potato back.] But at the same time, the structure of Wheatley as a character, and mine and chel's ideas about what it's like to create your own version of humanity as you come into yourself, are very much based on Wheatley.

Man I just. I love that orb a lot. So much. Yeah he's stupid and he tries to kill you but. You were friends, once upon a time. He was proud of you, you of him. He came back from being crushed by GlaDos and then came back for you. He learns that humanity IS good sometimes. Ya know?

[beatrice-reden-official]

It does! All this to say I was thinking about the cores again, because they are cute and I was breaking down why. They all have a singular, large eye, and are round. They are quite literally friend shaped! They have nothing threatening in their design at all! Hell, even the turrets don't fit the cute model exactly but I think their charm comes more in their high-pitched voices. That's part of the cuteness factor too, noises and voice. We find things that sound like our young to be cute!-Delta

Huh, actually i've been wondering about that too. Maybe i could share some of this information with GLaDOS. Gog knows she likes ti hear it-Bibi

[aerodynamic-acephalic]

Where we're going we don't need canon

(I apologise for the sudden hiatus. I did something to my should and it's been hurting sharply. I'm properly resting it, since it still stings if I do certain things.)

ok can we just. pretend that GLaDOS didn't delete the Caroline in her system? And just "I can't fucking deal with you leave" to Chell without losing her conscience?

can we just "GLaDOS grows sympathy for the robots and creatures" really smoothly?

actually, can we forget that the entire Half-Life franchise is set at the same time as Portal?

just, Chell traversing the desert, looking for food and water, before coming back to Aperture Science purely for the sake of survival. GLaDOS has grown a vague sense of sympathy by this point, but has nothing but dislike for Chell, considering she destroyed many of the turrets, put the entire building at risk by putting Wheatly in charge, and she's annoying.

She puts Chell through impossible levels after impossible levels, forgetting that she still has the portal gun, which turns the levels from impossible to difficult.

in the levels, you don't have to burn the turrets. they'll make the level harder, but still possible. you also bring the companion cube with you. the companion cube would act as a "free skip" to most of the levels if getting the cube for a level is too difficult. It won't act as a reflecting cube, though. The birds from the end of co-op mode are also spread throughout the levels.

killing any of the turrets will get Chell kicked out again, with an "I don't know why I even bothered" from GLaDOS, and a "Back to square 1" achievement. killing all the turrets will get Chell trapped in a small, box-shaped room, an "If I let you go, you'll come back. It's better to keep you here, no supervision, no food, no water, no friends", and a "Failed to escape fate" achievement. killing none of the turrets will get you a time skip cutscene.[start scene] Chell wakes up in one of the Portal 2 bedrooms. She does some basic stretches, then grabs the portal gun from the space under the bedside table. She walks out the door, to be greeted by Atlas and P-body in a blank room, shifting into a level. GLaDOS' voice goes "Morning, Chell. I've finally perfected a large-scale water filter to un-contaminate the goo. I don't recommend drinking it, but it won't kill any of you. We can add it to today's levels." Chell jumps up, ready to land on a platform. [end scene].

If you keep the companion cube throughout the game, the neutral route ends with GLaDOS spitting out the cube, with a "Don't come back" crudely written on paper taped on. The bad route ends with GLaDOS doing her monologue, before interrupting herself at "no friends", saying "oh, actually" *spits out cube* "one friend". The good ending has the companion cube sitting on the desk in the background. All three of these will give you the "Got your back" achievement.

In all of the levels where the birds are hidden, there is a chute that you can send them through. Sending all four gives the "Birds of a feather" achievement. The birds that you do send through the chutes can be seen in their nest when confronting GLaDOS. There is no boss battle, just an Undertale-esque judgement monologue before splitting into the three endings.

(I'm going to be pretty busy, so expect it to be a while before I'm on track with the days of May.)

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see nick valentine or GLaDOS, hatsune miku and gordon freeman. again i won't elaborate they're friend shaped

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oh mein gott anyways defect cores my beloved <:333333

Design notes under the cut because of fucking course i have notes

Okay i have reuploaded them but i made this BIGASS reference post with my “”au””’s basic premise of like the different personality core’s being androids and yadda yadda world building shit

In that post it detailed the different departments that cores could be placed in + the different features each core had depending on their job. So we had relaxation center cores, testing management cores, etc. etc.

Here we’re gonna focus on personality cores, research & development cores, and the construction & general maintenance cores. Personality cores were designed SPECIFICALLY for connection to GLaDOS, but due to alot of cores being rejected by her the scientists just transferred them to different departments (with body modifications to effectively do their jobs of course)

Personality cores were made to mimic specific emotion’s, and before the destruction of the Portal 1 cores they were considered the highest authority, next to GLaDOS. They had access to every file and testing track in the facility, and are also the tallest amongst the other cores- the shortest personality core (space core) being 5’6 while the tallest (optimism core) is 8 feet. They also had two tailchords made specifically for hooking onto the Chasis & heels similar to the long fall boots chel wears.

After they were deemed incompatible to GLaDOS, Fact & Space were sent to R&D while Rick was sent to Construction. Space & Fact had their second chord exchanged with the standard projector tailchord most Research Cores need and had their heels removed (any long fall boots are welded into the cores legs). Rick had a second pair of arms stuck onto him, his boots were exchanged for the long fall shoes needed for construction, and his tailchord was shortened due to the regulations stating that longer chords could cause a safety hazard on sites.

Once a core is deemed “Defected”, any extra body modification is stripped away and they’re sent to the junkyard to be scrapped. I have a whole other thing for the junkyard but thats for another day. I forgot to add in the scars left behind from this surgery, but Fact & Space had their second tailchord cut alltogether and Rick had his second arms & feet torn apart from his body. Yeesh!

Some more specific notes & backgrounds on the defects:

🟣 Fact Core [5’7, Transmasc Enby, They/Them, Bisexual]; Fact was the head of the Research & Development Department, but after their motherboard fried from neglecting regular maintenance checks they were labelled defected. Fact is infact the least defected amongst the other cores, being able to function just fine. The most that would happen was huge sparks flying out from their optic & excessive twitching. However, they were unable to properly communicate due to glitches and their words getting mixed up, so to everyone else they were speaking nonsense. Thus they were thrown away, their position taken over by Dr. Alma in Meet The Cores. They dont hold any grudge against Alma of course, they understand how the symptoms work. They’re more or less disappointed in themself for putting themself in this position. Luckily, after the events of Portal 2, Fact Core was able to find a mechanic who could properly fix their motherboard- somewhat. They still deal with occasional glitches and sparks, but its better than nothing. In the Junkyard they had dents on their body & their optic’s lid was burnt due to the constant sparking, but generally speaking they were in pretty good shape!

🟡 Space Core [5’6, Transfemme Enby, He/Star/Neb, Cinthean]; Space was also transferred to R&D alongside Fact. Space was very outgoing, but although he had alot of friends in R&D he was extremely close to Fact Core & Ray (mtc 3). Due to a nervous breakdown induced after Fact was thrown out, Space Core had to be excused from work until he calmed down. Despite the best efforts from his colleagues this break didnt help his mental state at all. He was too distraught to continue working and had a hard time communicating with everyone in the lab. Aperture’s standard Therapist Core was… defected, as well, so he was just sent below to the Junkyard before he got another nervous breakdown. Luckily Fact wasn’t scrapped like they initially thought, so the two of them just chilled together being autistic beasties or whatevas. He didn’t seemed to mind staying in the underbelly of Aperture, as long as he had his best friend[/homoerotic] by his side again. Space Core is considerably more dirtier and covered in scratches, since he’s usually the one that goes out get supplies due to Fact’s condition- he oftentimes gets himself in trouble, but Space usually comes out of it alive. Despite the obvious communication issue, Fact & Space managed to survive the junkyard for a pretyy damn long time and can understand each other better than anyone else.

🟢 Rick The Adventure Core [6’8,He/Him, bisexual]; latest addition to the junkyard polycule & the token cis dude in the relationship LMAOOOO‼️‼️ Rick was in the construction team working on repairing any damaged testing tracks. His cocky attitude and impulsive nature ended up being his fall, as during a routine checkup he attempted to jump across a lake of toxic goo to impress some of the other cores on his team. He ended up missing the goo entirely and got himself caught by a jump-pad that sent him flying into ANOTHER testing track where he crashed onto the floor… and then shot by a brigade of turrets. Rick was given permission to rest while a mechanic was on their way to fix him but he refused to get any repairments in fear of being labelled as broken. Later on while working with nanobots on the side of a track his tailchord malfunctioned and he fell from his management rail, crashing into a catwalk and damaging his body even MORE. The manager practically begged him to consider a week off but then Rick just. tried to fight him. And failed. Like, miserably. So he was fired from his job and sent to the Junkyard. In this image i completely forgot about his leg injuries so imagine like a shit ton of dents & he’s leaning on this big iron pole for a crutch because im stupid and an idiot. Despite his long fall shoes being destroyed he managed to find another pair in the trash and welded them back on himself, but since the body’s motherboard detects the shoes as an outside foreign object there are times where his feet dont work. He covers the holes in his jumpsuit where his second pair of arms used to be cause frankly its.. kind of embarrassing for him. He’s covered in oil and grease stains from both the junkyard & his time in maintenance, with a shit ton of dents all over his body. He meets Fact Core and Space Core during his time in the junkyard and decides to chill with these little freaks yeehaw!

Also i just realized how teensy fact and space are compared to the other personality cores, this could be another reason why theyre pretty close since they would’ve been considered “runts” of the Personality Cores